xxxix, 187 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxviii) and index

Introduction. The manuscript -- The Wakefield Group -- Influences on the Wakefield pageants -- The staging of the pageants -- The Wakefield playwright's use of language -- The author -- Date -- Dialect -- Select bibliography -- Note on the edited text -- Text. 1. Mactacio Abel -- 2. Processus Noe cum filiis -- 3. Prima pastorum -- 4. Secunda pastorum -- 5 Magnus Herodes -- 6. Coliphizacio -- Notes -- Appendices. -- 1. Two documents concerning the Wakefield Corpus Christi play -- 2. Metre -- 3. Linguistic indications of date -- 4. Mak's imitation of southern English

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